CF 2025 Migration Guide

[Dominik38524635qk7t]

I would like to switch from CF 2016 to CF 2025. I have already installed the developer edition of the latest CF 2025 version.

Could anyone post me a link to a migration guide or/and provide other useful information about the migration steps to do?

Thanks for  any help!

[AbhishekJha]

@Dominik38524635qk7t  Here is the migration guide: https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/cc/us/en/products/coldfusion/coldfusion-2025/pdf/CF2025_migration_...

Thank You,

Abhishek

[Dominik38524635qk7t]

Hi Abhishek,

thank you for the link to the migration guide. I have chosen the GUI-mode installation with a different port 8501, since I would like to run the new CF version alongside with the old one. But now I am stuck in step 8 because no CF Migration wizard appears as described. I can login into the administration console but I don't find a migration wizard here as well. Can you help me?

[Dominik38524635qk7t]

I have also tried to manually start the migration wizard by following the "Updating from an earlier version" instructions on this website
https://helpx.adobe.com/de/coldfusion/installing/installing-the-server-configuration.html

but again, no migration wizard is coming up.

[AbhishekJha]

@Dominik38524635qk7t Can you please check the adminconfig.xml file under cfusion\lib for the new version and update the values to true (depending on your version):

<runsetupwizard>false</runsetupwizard>
<runmigrationwizard>true</runmigrationwizard>
<runmxmigrationwizard>false</runmxmigrationwizard>
<runsecureprofile>false</runsecureprofile>
<migratecf2023>true</migratecf2023>
<migratecf2021>false</migratecf2021>

The same steps are mentioned in the guide, pages 15,16, as well.

Thank You,

Abhishek

[Dominik38524635qk7t]

There was a syntax error in my adminconfig.xml file which I have corrected now:

<setupconfig>
    <runsetupwizard>false</runsetupwizard>
    <runmigrationwizard>true</runmigrationwizard>
    <runmxmigrationwizard>false</runmxmigrationwizard>
    <runsecureprofile>false</runsecureprofile>
    <migratecf2023>false</migratecf2023>
    <migratecf2021>false</migratecf2021>
    <migratecf2018>false</migratecf2018>
    <migratecf2016>true</migratecf2016>
    <migratecf11/>
    <migratecf10/>
    <setupoptions>
        <sampleapps>false</sampleapps>
        <odbc>false</odbc>
        <enablerds>true</enablerds>
    </setupoptions>
</setupconfig>

Now the migration assistant is started when I restart CF. However there are no migration steps performed. The migration immediately terminates with the message "Setup Complete". What am I missing?

[Dominik38524635qk7t]

PS: I can verify that backups have been created for some of the neo-*.xml files, e.g. for neo-datasource.xml, but there have not been been any changes to these files, so the settings from the files in the cf2016settings folder have not been applied.